[MattRain]

The bag in tag for the AIA AZ Championship just doesn't make since. Myself, along with another person I work with, were shown the requirements for the AIA AZ Championships before they went out to the public, as I work for one of the companies that sponsors the regionals in AZ. We fought to try and remove the bag n tag requirement, but were not successful. To make it even more interesting, since this is a one day event, there are no awards handed out, so teams are pretty much just traveling to play with their robot. Plus, they have dropped the FIRST name off of the title of the event.... its not an actual FIRST event.... its an off-season event.

My team barely pays the registration fee each year to compete, and have been lucky enough this year to be granted the money to be able to compete in both AZ regionals. We don't even know how we would be able to pay for Worlds if we get there.

I agree that there should not be a bag n tag requirement, but its not going to change, we have already tried... I wish we could get practice with our bot as well...... we need it.... haha. (That, and some modifications....)